Living out your dreams...
This morning I happened to chance upon a short little video on picture books about the life of Jane Goodall, a chimpanzee expert/ ardent conservationist. The illustrations are wonderful! Somehow I found it touching when she spoke about how women had some innate qualities like empathy and intuition we can bring to the field of science. I just never thought of it that way. I got somewhat upset when folks at Cambridge told her chimpanzees should only be given numbers and not names...!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Monday, May 09, 2011
These days I find myself running out of things to say. Perhaps I am growing more and more self-conscious and critical => so I self-censor more these days. The past weekend was a very exciting one... with WP making history by winning a GRC. Personally, the most touching part was witnessing the successful outcome of their tough bid/ fight... how these ppl can hold on to their ideals despite the difficulties faced and work really really hard to realise their lofty dreams.
One of the amusing "by-product" of election night was that Mr Yam Ah Mee, our dear Returning Officer, went from sheer obscurity to being one of the most well-liked faces in GE 2011 overnight. Given his very sudden and overwhelming popularity (with 38,427 likes and counting on his FB fan page), I think his rise to fame beats Miss NS, who prob became Sg's most popular politician on FB over a span of at least a week or two. It's somewhat 'heartwarming' too that though ppl poke fun at his 'robot voice' and photoshop his face onto logos of traditional chinese medicinal balms and all; most of the online chatter about him is in good jest. Mr Yam really looks like a pretty earnest and sincere kinda guy.
This evening my mum also got a really yummy choc cake from Chocolate Origin at Changi Village for my sis' birthday tomorrow. I have to say it is one of the yummiest and chocolatey cake I've ever had, and it certainly feels more like a choc cake than these Awfully Chocolate cakes. I think Awfully Choc cakes are actually awfully unchocolatey, because they never seem to leave a nice cocoa-ish aftertaste. While they taste alright, they remind me more of flavoured dense dark brown cream and not chocolate... but somehow the Awfully Choc stuff has a cult following. Sorry to say, but their cold poached choco cakes are one of the more hideous-looking cakes I've seen. (wah, why i suddenly so evil and foul-mouthed haha)
I will end on a sad note. My little plant at office is dying and looking jaundiced. Maybe it's finally manifesting the symptoms of printer toner-dust poisoning :(
One of the amusing "by-product" of election night was that Mr Yam Ah Mee, our dear Returning Officer, went from sheer obscurity to being one of the most well-liked faces in GE 2011 overnight. Given his very sudden and overwhelming popularity (with 38,427 likes and counting on his FB fan page), I think his rise to fame beats Miss NS, who prob became Sg's most popular politician on FB over a span of at least a week or two. It's somewhat 'heartwarming' too that though ppl poke fun at his 'robot voice' and photoshop his face onto logos of traditional chinese medicinal balms and all; most of the online chatter about him is in good jest. Mr Yam really looks like a pretty earnest and sincere kinda guy.
This evening my mum also got a really yummy choc cake from Chocolate Origin at Changi Village for my sis' birthday tomorrow. I have to say it is one of the yummiest and chocolatey cake I've ever had, and it certainly feels more like a choc cake than these Awfully Chocolate cakes. I think Awfully Choc cakes are actually awfully unchocolatey, because they never seem to leave a nice cocoa-ish aftertaste. While they taste alright, they remind me more of flavoured dense dark brown cream and not chocolate... but somehow the Awfully Choc stuff has a cult following. Sorry to say, but their cold poached choco cakes are one of the more hideous-looking cakes I've seen. (wah, why i suddenly so evil and foul-mouthed haha)
I will end on a sad note. My little plant at office is dying and looking jaundiced. Maybe it's finally manifesting the symptoms of printer toner-dust poisoning :(
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